9780452280021: Billy Bathgate

Synopsis

A new edition of a classic best-seller follows young Billy Bathgate through 1930s New York as he becomes involved with the nefarious schemes of the fascinating mobster Dutch Schultz and begins a potentially deadly affair with Dutch's paramour. Reprint.

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About the Author

E.L. Doctorow, one of America's preeminent authors, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation For Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published a volume of selected essays Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution, and a play, Drinks Before Dinner, which was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival. He resides in New Rochelle, New York.

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